Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
by Marie Brenner

Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
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Author: Marie Brenner
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-13
ISBN: 0374173524
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Book Review: A Palpable Irony
Summary: 4 Stars

An interesting and well-written memoir, unsentimental and incisive.

the only thing that really bothered me about this book is that author clearly violated her brother's privacy. he explicitly destroyed all paperwork relating to his life, probably knowing that she would exploit his story, or explore it, for her own purposes.

Summary of Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found

To be sure, some brothers and sisters have relationships that are easy. But oh, some relationships can be fraught. Confusing, too: How can two people share the same parents and turn out to be entirely different?

Marie Brenner's brother, Carl-yin to her yang, red state to her blue state-lived in Texas and in the apple country of Washington state, cultivating his orchards, polishing his guns, and (no doubt causing their grandfather Isidor to turn in his grave) attending church, while Marie, a world-class journalist and bestselling author, led a sophisticated life among the "New York libs" her brother loathed.

From their earliest days there was a gulf between them, well documented in testy letters and telling photos: "I am a textbook younger child . . . training as b?te noir to my brother," Brenner writes. "He's barely six years old and has already developed the Carl Look. It's the expression that the rabbit gets in Watership Down when it goes tharn, freezes in the light."

After many years apart, a medical crisis pushed them back into each other's lives. Marie temporarily abandoned her job at Vanity Fair magazine, her friends, and her husband to try to help her brother. Except that Carl fought her every step of the way. "I told you to stay away from the apple country," he barked when she showed up. And, "Don't tell anyone out here you're from New York City. They'll get the wrong idea."

As usual, Marie-a reporter who has exposed big Tobacco scandals and Enron-irritated her brother and ignored his orders. She trained her formidable investigative skills on finding treatments to help her brother medically. And she dug into the past of the brilliant and contentious Brenner family, seeking in that complicated story a cure, too, for what ailed her relationship with Carl. If only they could find common ground, she reasoned, all would be well.

Brothers and sisters, Apples and Oranges. Marie Brenner has written an extraordinary memoir-one that is heartbreakingly honest, funny and true. It's a book that even her brother could love.

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